hi, im located in adelaide, they are nice sturdy bike and ride well.
the one i have is all complete. Ill have to locate it to see the condition but from memory its all original with 3spd sturmey archer.

i am new to understanding bike terminology but what is a sturmey archer?
freight form adelaide shouldnt be too much i wouldnt think
if you are interested please let me know what you are lookign for etc

i think postage will be approx $80-90 but i can check if you like.. sturmey archer is the gearing make, it was popular at the time and bullet proof as ive never had or heard it break down, Ill get some picts of the bike and see what you think, should have them by weekend

[quote="silverlight"]i think postage will be approx $80-90 but i can check if you like.. sturmey archer is the gearing make, it was popular at the time and bullet proof as ive never had or heard it break down, Ill get some picts of the bike and see what you think, should have them by weekend[/quotehttp://www.bicycles.net.au/forums/viewtopic.php?p=112785#112785]is this the bike you have ??

+V+S+ wrote:i am new to understanding bike terminology but what is a sturmey archer?

Sturmey Archer was a company that specialised in a form of gears for bicycles that were all located inside the rear hub. These were refered to, understandably as 'hub gears' & were very widely used even up into the 60's.
They were good & reliable & sturdy units & by the 1930's they offered a vast aray of cycle components.

Like most of the surviving British cycle industry they seem to have been sucked into the vortex that led to the black hole that came tp be known as Ralleigh TI [for Tube Industries]

In the end most British bicycles were Ralleigh's with different stickers, different paint & different advertising bu11$h1t.

When one mentions that a cycle is fitted with with a Sturmey Archer, or simply a 'Sturmey' they generally mean that it has a three speed, wide ratio hub gear as this was far & away the most common model, but medium ratio & close ratio models were made along with various 4 speed models as well.

The lack of gears [greater than 5] the internal drag, the complexity [compared to derailleurs] & the cost pretty much killed off the 3 & 4 speed hub gear, but in many applications, they are still just the ticket.

thanks for that its interesting, i got a malvern star family star bike and it has 3 speed hub gears i really like that, and i think i actually prefer this style of gearing. you can probably get more out of a derailed but for what i need i like the hub. i grew up with bikes that were either single speed or derailed so it is a bit of a novelty for me to have hubs

They are well suited to the roadster type of bike with it's upright seating position & more lazy riding style, & are quite easy & pleasant to use, but serious racing cyclists abandonded them in droves once Campagnolo invented the Gran Sport derailleur & 10 speed gears became much more widely used

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